What is the life cycle of Pristionchus pacificus?
The life cycle of the species Pristionchus pacificus is quite short. At 20°C ist takes only about 72 hours to grow from an egg to an egg laying hermaphrodite. Pristionchus pacificus is as mentioned before a hermaphroditic species. That means a single hermaphrodite can reproduce without having another sex partner. There are, however, spontanous occuring males, so-called residual males.
